Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.